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Does anyone here go fish gigging?
It's a fairly common practice here in the Ozarks and one of my favorite things to do, but I have no idea if it's done anywhere else.
Question by Far Rider. Uploaded on March 04, 2009
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tell you the truth, i have no idea what gigging is.
Jigging?
What's gigging?
Gigging is sticking the fish with a fork on a stick. I've gigged a few fish but I was really frog gigging when I did it. The opportunity just presented itself I gigged away. Gigged some snakes and a big cooter one time too.
We gig flounder when they move into the shallow flats. Mostly in the fall. We also gig frog in the spring.
Like Sharkfin said, it's basically sticking fish with a big fork. Around here we use 14' wooden poles with 4-pronged steel gig heads to gig bottom-feeding non-game fish, mostly yellow suckers, hogmollies, and redhorse, in rivers and shallow lake coves. Most folks use a flat-bottomed jon boat with some kind of lighting setup (I use two 400 watt metal hallide bulbs) and gig at night. Fish gigging season in Missouri runs from September 15 to January 31.
Flounder gigging in shallow bays on the Texas coast. Get a nice slack tide in November and a bright lantern and gig away.
we gig suckers out of rivers
Just bought my son a gig last week. We'll hit the frog ponds here soon.
We gig sucker and drum in Missouri. It's not in season right now, but it is some of the best fun you will every have when it's a bit nippy outside and the water is crisp and clear.
Check out my website about gigging: www.ozarkfishgigs.com
It's still in the infant stages, but keep checking back for new content.
At Hemlock Lake in Indiana County, Pennsylvania(near the world weather capital of Punxsutawney)it is posted that it is legal to shoot frogs with .22 caliber shot loads. How's that for big game hunting? I have not done this myself, but I think based on what I've read on-line that the froggy corpse is recovered from the water after being riddled with shot by being speared with the three-tined gigging fork on a stick the other commenters have referred to. Then they eat the legs. I guess they cook them. I suppose it tastes like chicken as all exotic flesh is said to taste like chicken. But wouldn't the eater be spitting out a lot of shot as the meal progreses?
Good answer Sharkfin and A + 1 for you sir!!!
fish gig all the time here in FL. Stabbed some nice ones.
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tell you the truth, i have no idea what gigging is.
Jigging?
What's gigging?
Gigging is sticking the fish with a fork on a stick. I've gigged a few fish but I was really frog gigging when I did it. The opportunity just presented itself I gigged away. Gigged some snakes and a big cooter one time too.
We gig flounder when they move into the shallow flats. Mostly in the fall. We also gig frog in the spring.
Like Sharkfin said, it's basically sticking fish with a big fork. Around here we use 14' wooden poles with 4-pronged steel gig heads to gig bottom-feeding non-game fish, mostly yellow suckers, hogmollies, and redhorse, in rivers and shallow lake coves. Most folks use a flat-bottomed jon boat with some kind of lighting setup (I use two 400 watt metal hallide bulbs) and gig at night. Fish gigging season in Missouri runs from September 15 to January 31.
Flounder gigging in shallow bays on the Texas coast. Get a nice slack tide in November and a bright lantern and gig away.
we gig suckers out of rivers
Just bought my son a gig last week. We'll hit the frog ponds here soon.
We gig sucker and drum in Missouri. It's not in season right now, but it is some of the best fun you will every have when it's a bit nippy outside and the water is crisp and clear.
Check out my website about gigging: www.ozarkfishgigs.com
It's still in the infant stages, but keep checking back for new content.
At Hemlock Lake in Indiana County, Pennsylvania(near the world weather capital of Punxsutawney)it is posted that it is legal to shoot frogs with .22 caliber shot loads. How's that for big game hunting? I have not done this myself, but I think based on what I've read on-line that the froggy corpse is recovered from the water after being riddled with shot by being speared with the three-tined gigging fork on a stick the other commenters have referred to. Then they eat the legs. I guess they cook them. I suppose it tastes like chicken as all exotic flesh is said to taste like chicken. But wouldn't the eater be spitting out a lot of shot as the meal progreses?
Good answer Sharkfin and A + 1 for you sir!!!
fish gig all the time here in FL. Stabbed some nice ones.
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